[Rhodes22-list] How much time do you spend on the computer?

[elle]

Andrew,

I think the 'or something' has a nice ring to it.

elle

We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Andrew Collins <sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Andrew Collins <sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] How much time do you spend on the computer?
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 3:36 PM
> Dear Mr. Wager,
> 
> While the posting on political topics is currently
> excessive, we can still
> use it as a sailing forum. When it gets to be too much I
> just wander off and
> do other things like work, hang out with my family, try to
> raise my kids the
> right way, sail, stinkpot around or whatever. When I come
> back, it is
> entirely voluntary.
> 
> This forum may not be perfect, but it is our forum. So
> three guys can
> somehow post a lot. So what? Any and all of us can buzz off
> whenever we
> want.
> 
> Now, on another note we have brave citizens of all stripes
> posting,
> reasoning, venting, ranting, proclaiming themselves to be
> God (Brad,
> really!), it is like a bar at 5 minututes to midnight
> sometimes. A sailor's
> bar, of course. Some of the stuff that gets posted, you
> just cannot make up,
> it is so far out.
> 
> Personally, if the posts piss me off, I delete or ignore or
> take a break.
> They are almost always informative, so I think a lively,
> even chaotic forum
> covering any topic at all with a lot of sailing know-how
> available from list
> members is preferable to some of the other ones that are
> just dead boring.
> 
> So this was a longish way of telling you to go haul your
> boat or something.
> 
> respectfully
> 
> Andrew
> sv Carmen
> mv freckle
> Fallow Traveller
> enlightened capitalist
> member of da list
> 
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Metaphor
> <mwager at bluecrab.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've got a simple question, but mostly applied to
> Herb and Brad, and
> > somewhat
> > to Tootle:
> >
> > Do you guys have jobs or real lives, or do you spend
> all day on the
> > internet
> > and then posting to this forum?  There are a couple of
> other volume
> > posters,
> > but none so prolific as you are. I get the sense that
> the sailors are
> > pretty
> > much giving up getting airtime in competition with the
> political nature of
> > this forum.
> >
> > I try to follow the various threads, but have lost
> interest in this forum
> > because it has so little to do with sailing, Rhodes
> 22's or nautical life
> > in
> > general.  Reading the same paranoid information from
> the three of you over
> > and over again is tiresome, so much so that I've
> begun to applaud your
> > challengers -- Ben C, petelargo, etc.,  simply because
> they are challenging
> > you, and I have (but not always) voted Republican.
> >
> > Your time would be better spent arguing on a political
> forum rather that a
> > sailing one, and leaving this forum to talk about the
> boring details of the
> > Rhodes 22 -- you know, technical issues, innovative
> re-designs or fixes,
> > sailing techniques, great sailing adventures, that
> kind of stuff of
> > interest
> > to Rhodes 22 owners and sailors... certainly there
> would be fewer posts,
> > but
> > the Rhodes 22 boat issues would not be so buried under
> the volume of
> > political posts found here.  A search of the internet
> would probably find a
> > few sites that you might find more of a political
> nature.  Thanks...
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